CNN article “Making toilet paper, eating less: How one single mom plans to weather inflation.”
I told my parents that by learning to refurbish old things and learning skills like how to sew my own clothes, I was actually gaining necessary skills
They still think I was joking
Clothing really is a thing we have an overabundance of and you can very easily dress yourself with affordable thrift store items or even donations. Of course sewing can help getting more out of it, but it‘s not exactly a cheap alternative. Refurbishing interior or even simple electric devices like lamps is pretty easy to learn though and a very useful life skill precisely because we throw away so many things that still have value to others.
Darning socks and replacing buttons/zippers are absolutely cost effective unless you’re making money money. Depending on the size/shape/location of tears in other pieces of clothing it might be, but it takes approximately one minute to sew a button back on and once you get the hang of it, under ten for socks or a zipper, working without a sewing machine.
Sewing your own clothing is a totally different ballgame. There you need patterns or significant planning time, and fabric is not exactly cheap. I’m sure people still do it by hand, but that’s hella time consuming and much more difficult than with a machine, which is also an investment (though you can often find them second hand at very affordable prices).
I run a cut/sew shop. Clothing is a small section of the trade of sewing.
Hilarious to me they think that way. Im a dude in my 40s and when I was a kid it was ingrained in me that I needed to know how to sew because repairing clothes was a necessary skill. At minimum I needed to be able to make a shirt and pants and to fix buttons. I took two years of home ec my last year of middle school and first year of high school to learn to sew and make clothes.
I learned to sew in middle school.
When I enlisted in the navy, I was handed a sewing kit and told I better learn how to use it because uniform repairs were my responsibility.
Still I hear grown men mocking any male why knows or wants to learn a basic skill.
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Oh cmon. No-one’s making their own toilet paper.
Someone might think they’re going to, but they won’t.
Just get a bidet shower addon to your faucet.
We’re making toilet paper. “Richest” country in the world, and we’re making toilet paper.
Someone has to make it!
You can be a millionaire if you stop drinking lattes, eating avocado toast, and start making your own TP.
The way inflation is going, you might literally save millions by skipping an avocado toast.
Next step is eating toilet paper and shitting less.
Lol just saw that in my strange addiction.
Spoilers: it doesn’t end well if you eat half a roll a day.
I’m sorry, but that’s disgusting. Who eats half a roll of toilet paper every day?! You’ve got to commit to the whole thing.
Wat happens?
Oh stopped half way through the episode I never finish them. I got to the part with her talking about all the medical issues before in dozed off. They are free on tubing.
Americans need more fiber in their diet.
richest country in the world
I wish people would stop spreading tropes like these. While the USA as a whole has the highest GDP globally there are better ways of measuring how rich a country is.
…isn’t that the whole point that OP is making?
By calling the US the richest country in the world, in a post that shows that the US isn’t doing too hot on certain other metrics, it’s a clear message that the richness of a country isn’t enough, in itself. It’s intentional use of irony.
I’m sorry what?? Ireland??? Ireland is the richest nation on earth if you exclude micronations? How?
edit, oh its just another tax haven like Luxemburg. lol this list is as meaningless as the original claim. “places where lunchmeat store their capital, listed inversely relative to population size”
